Acorn - an intentional ulterior motive?

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Acorn - an intentional ulterior motive?
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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:30pm
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:42pm

Don't know but I will say this. The Republicans are trying to twist the ACORN scandal into something much much bigger than it is. The clear motive here for bad-seed ACORN reps was to effect false registrations because they got paid by the registration, not by the vote. As far as I know, there is no proof that even a single person used the false registrations to cast an illegal vote.

In contrast, there is evidence that the magnitude of actual Republican voter fraud far outweighs that of Democratic voter fraud: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/9/greg_palast_on_vote_rigging_and

The Republicans are taking millions of likely Democratic voters off the roles in battleground states.

To win the Presidency as a Democrat, you have to win well over 50% of the vote to overcome the Republican fraud.

This is just another case of the Republicans going on the offensive against Democrats for something the Republicans are far more guilty of.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 1:48pm

I've wondered the same thing about some of the rallies - if some of the people were plants to stir the pot but figured saying so would seriously flame me ... and I just felt too bad to deal with that today.


I think both are possible ... who knows

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-25-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 4:11pm

Shop, how do you account for the fact that:


a) this has been happening as part of ACORN "registration drives" across the country?


b) It has happened every voting cycle for about the last 10 years?

ACORN has been engaged in fraudulent voter registration since the 1990s.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-04-2003
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 4:24pm

Absintheofmalice - I guess I just can't get over the fact over how obvious it is.